IT's the place to look for jobs (From Gazette & Herald)

IT's the place to look for jobs

There is no question that a career in Information Technology (IT) is becoming increasing popular.

A growing number of jobseekers are choosing a career in IT, attracted by an average starting salary of £26,000, according to the BBC. Furthermore, the large proliferation of IT courses combined with an increasing number of vacancies in this industry means that it is vital that jobseekers and recruiters are able to easily meet.

The best place for both to meet is on the recruitment section of our website, www.thisisryedale.co.uk. It is the most popular place to search for and place IT jobs, due to our partnership with the UK's largest recruitment website*, fish4jobs, according to independent research by NORAS (the National Online Recruitment Audience Survey).

Research in March found that 835,000 monthly searches for IT vacancies takes place on fish4jobs throughout the UK.

Already via www.thisisryedale.co.uk, in partnership with fish4jobs, our readers can actively look for a wide range of IT positions across technical support, user acceptance testing, data analysis, project management, consultancy, helpdesk, network management, web development, quality assurance management and system analysis, amongst others, in the Ryedale area.

Furthermore, our partnership with fish4jobs allows us to offer a wide range of products and services that will aid both our readers looking for local IT positions in the Ryedale area as well as those companies wanting to recruit quality local IT staff.

These tools include a CV database, which currently has over 5,000 IT-specific registrations alone, e-mail job alerts and a 'myfish4' registered candidate base, for example.

Sean Mahon, fish4's group marketing director, said: "For all IT jobseekers and IT recruiters the recruitment section of www.thisisryedale.co.uk should be their first port of call.

"Jobseekers and recruiters should remember that at fish4jobs we pride ourselves in carrying a vast amount of local vacancies, across all regions and industry sectors. So if you are a job seeker or a recruiter, log on to and check out www.thisisryedale.co.uk."

Gazette & Herald editor Chris Buxton said: "With the popularity of careers in IT increasing fast, we are keen to offer the best local IT vacancies to our readers, and offer the best candidates to our advertisers on www.thisisryedale.co.uk. Our partnership with fish4jobs allows us to do this highly effectively for both, as well as provide a wide range of other roles and candidates, respectively, in the Ryedale area."

fish4jobs is the UK's most popular recruitment website,

*NORAS/ABC Electronic 2006 research

Updated: 15:44 Wednesday, April 12, 2006